Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch is compiled for the Pacific Media Centre as a regional media freedom and educational resource by a network of journalists, students, stringers and commentators.
NZ aid workers’ open letter condemns broadcaster for Pacific ‘leeches’ attack
By RNZ Pacific
OPINION: An open letter to broadcaster Heather du Plessis-Allan on behalf of New Zealanders who have worked, and those are who are...
Tongan scholars lodge protests over broadcaster’s Pacific ‘leeches’ jibe
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
Tongan community leaders and top scholars in New Zealand will complain to the Human Rights Commission against broadcaster...
Tahiti’s Salmon fined for defaming president with ‘vote buying’ claim
By RNZ Pacific
A senior French Polynesian politician has been fined for defaming the president Edouard Fritch during the election campaign in April.
The criminal court...
Kupu: New app translates objects into te reo Māori
Te Rina Kowhai reports for Te Karere. Video: TVNZ
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A new app developed by Spark and Google in conjunction with the Research...
RSF open letter plea to Suu Kyi for Myanmar journalists’ freedom
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Five days after Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in prison on a trumped-up...
Stick to our Forum visa rules, Nauru warns media via Twitter
By RNZ Pacific
The Nauru government has taken to Twitter to warn journalists they are not above the law as they cover the Pacific Islands...
Media freedom commentators condemn Nauru ‘gag’ actions
By RNZ Morning Report
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrived today for the leader's retreat at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nauru where she...
TVNZ Pacific reporter released after being detained in Nauru
Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver tells media of her three-hour detention by Nauru police after interviewing a refugee today. She was stripped...
Nauru authorities detain TVNZ Pacific reporter for interviewing refugee
By RNZ Pacific
New Zealand journalist Barbara Dreaver has been detained by authorities in Nauru while covering the Pacific Islands Forum summit, reports Television New...
RSF condemns jail terms for two Myanmar journalists in ‘sham trial’
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the seven-year prison sentences imposed on two Reuters reporters in the Myanmar city of Yangon yesterday...
Aid groups call on Pacific leaders to end Nauru refugee ‘stain...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Amnesty International has joined 80 other NGOs in urging Pacific leaders to demand the closure of the Australian-funded immigration detention camp on...
Baliau village apologises for assault on PNG’s volcano island journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The village of Baliau on Papua New Guinea's Manam island has publicly apologised to an assaulted journalist reporting for The National...
Pacific media freedom groups blast assault on reporters on volcano island
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Some villagers affected by the volcanic eruption on Manam island haven taken out their anger and frustration against four journalists covering...
PINA condemns attack on PNG journalist covering volcano
By RNZ Pacific
The president of the Pacific Islands News Association says he is appalled and disappointed by an attack on Papua New Guinea journalist...
JAWS president backs call to abolish Samoa’s criminal libel law
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu in Apia
Rudy Bartley, president of the Journalist Association of Samoa (JAWS), has supported the international call for Samoa’s government to abolish...
Jokowi unmoved by growing support for ‘noise’ blasphemy case woman
By Christie Stefanie in Jakarta
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says he respects the verdict handed down by an Indonesian local court against an ethnic Chinese...
Fiji judge orders retrial in ‘hate graffiti’ spray painting sedition case
By Jessica Savike in Suva
Fiji High Court judge Justice Vinsent Perera has ordered a retrial of former opposition SODELPA parliamentarian Mosese Bulitavu and Fiji...
Detained Freedom Flotilla journalist speaks out over Israeli illegal actions
Journalist Richard Sudan speaks out on PressTV.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A British journalist on board last month's Freedom Flotilla mission to attempt to break the...
RSF calls on Nauru to allow banned ABC to cover Pacific...
By Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Nauru to rescind its decision to bar Australia’s public radio and TV broadcaster, ABC,...
Films about 1965 anti-communist stigma dominate Indonesian festival
The trailer for Eka Saputri's film Melawan Arus. Video: Komunitas Kedung
By Joko Santoso in Purbalingga
A short film by a student whose family were victims...
Media freedom groups protest over detained Bangladeshi photojournalist
By Global Voices
Late on the night of August 5, 2018, award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Dr Shahidul Alam was forcibly abducted from his house...
Radio 531pi’s Brian Sagala talks nuke-free Pacific with David Robie
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Radio 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Brian Sagala has talked about the Rarotonga Treaty with Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie.
"It...
